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water rightsright of a consumer (person, business, or government) to use water from a specific source. Sometimes, water rights include the amount of water a consumer is allowed to use.
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water rightsDefinition Common Law rights held by owners of land adjacent to rivers, lakes, or oceans, including restrictions on those rights and land ownership.
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water rightsWater right refers to the right of a user to use water from a water source. This right includes the right to use water from any water source like a river, stream, pond and source of groundwater. Right [..]
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water rightsLegally established right to appropriate water from a given stream.
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water rightsThe systems set up by federal and provincial law to survey and grant public lands. Three basic systems have been used in Canada, all of which affect the layout and ownership of Indian reserve lands: The SEIGNEURIAL SYSTEM of Quebec before 1854, in which grants are of relatively irregular size. They are arranged in ranges of lots, often in the “rive [..]
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